Caregiver Stress and Sleep Study

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

120

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

July 15, 2022

Primary Completion Date

June 30, 2026

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2026

Conditions
Depressive SymptomsCaregiver Burden
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Morning Action Plan Execution

Each day, participants are asked to track if they do the morning activity plan.

BEHAVIORAL

Activity Strategy-based Session with Therapist

Participants will meet weekly with a trained therapist to discuss their prescribed activity plan. If unsuccessful, at weekly follow-ups, participants are asked to refine their plan or make a new one. Each session lasts about 30-45 minutes.

BEHAVIORAL

Attention-based Session with Therapist

Participants will meet weekly with trained a therapist to talk about stressors they experience, providing an opportunity to voice and self-address their problems. In this control condition, therapists will not deliver any particular strategy except for active listening and referring to the educational materials

BEHAVIORAL

Advance sleep-wake time

Some participants will be asked to adjust their sleep schedule to accommodate morning activity engagement by introducing or altering mechanisms known promote early rising (i.e., light exposure, reward and processes, etc.)

Trial Locations (1)

15213

RECRUITING

UPMC Western Behavioral Health, Pittsburgh

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIH

lead

University of Pittsburgh

OTHER